Ocupation: Poet
Life: 1564 - April 23, 1616
Birthday: 1564
Death: April 23
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]
topic: Teaching, Men, Church, Merchant Of Venice, Chapel